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In celebration of Hatsune Miku's 8th anniversary today (it's now August 31st in Japan), SEGA has announced the newest Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA title in the series: "Project DIVA X", which is the 10th Project DIVA game release to date.

Watching Working! ! ! is like observing an ever oscillating pendulum swing from one extreme to the other. Sometimes it will completely swing toward one extreme, while at other times it'll go to the other extreme.

This year's 40th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is revealing on Monday that the Owari no Seraph: Unmei no Hajimari (Seraph of the End: Beginning of Destiny) PlayStation Vita game will ship in Japan this winter.

Fan service abounds in the new preview video for VALKYRIE DRIVE - Bhikkuni, a "hyper battle" action game for the PS Vita developed by Meteorise and published by Marvelous, the makers of Senran Kagura. The short video features gameplay footage as w...

AnimeSongCollabo videos collect contributions from fan musicians and vocalists and compiles them into complete covers of favorite anime themes. This weekend, the themes of summer 2015's anime season have been collected, and maybe the fans were tak...

Even now, most legal documents in Japan don't ask for your signature, but rather that you stamp your inkan, or personal seal, to show approval or confirmation. Also called a hanko, the stamp, customarily used with red ink, leaves behind just the b...

The full music video for Arashi's wedding song Ai Wo Sakebe is out! Part of the MV was shot in an actual wedding reception held in Tokyo. The PV also features footage from dance rehearsals of Arashi, the groom and the groom's men before Arashi's s...

While not much as been officially publicized about the planned anime adaptation of Hellsing author Kouta Hirano's historical figures versus fantasy manga Drifters, but but there have been a few early looks.

On September 23, 2015, a 10-hour TV special celebrating the 30th anniversary of TV Asahi's Music Station program will feature a performance by virtual idol Hatsune Miku. Miku will perform along with numerous other musical acts, including idol grou...

Libre Publishing, a Japanese manga company that specializes in "boy's love" comics, announced on their official web-site that one of their popular series, His Favorite by Suzuki Tanaka, is going to receive a live-action adaptation.

Yoshi's Woolly World may well be one of the most adorable games I've ever seen, and it features tons of cute little woolly Yoshi friends to play with. Differently-patterned Yoshis and other familiar friends from the Mario series are featured in th...

A brand new original anime about exercising has been announced from Earth Star Entertainment and Rising Force: Ani Tore! EX (Training Through Anime! EX). The anime's official website has launched revealing that the anime will air from October 12th...

Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below is coming to PlayStation 4 in the west this October, so Square Enix shared a new English trailer for the Musou-style action game. Watch as heroes from a slew of Dragon Quest games answ...

Nintendo of America announced this afternoon that North America is getting a Special Edition for Xenoblade Chronicles X which launches on December 4th. According to the press release, the Special Edition includes the following: The Xenoblade Chron...

BEIJING (AP) - By administrative order, dramas about resisting the Japanese wartime enemy will fill Chinese TV channels this week as China celebrates - including with a massive military parade - the victory over Japan 70 years ago.

Pqube announced they will publish both of these bug blasting games in Europe in Q4 2015. Earth Defense Force 4. 1 is an enhanced version of Earth Defense Force 2025 with a new battle with a Godzilla-like monster and a spider tank.

A little slice of Japan is whisked into New York City as the Waku Waku +NYC festival touches down at the Brooklyn Expo Center and the surrounding Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods. The fledgling event, which touts itself as the premier Jap...

'歓喜なき勝利' (Kanki Naki Shōri) "Joyless Victory" It's not that I spent much time on speculation, but this was not how I expected Nagisa's backroom schemes to unfold. It's clear that I'm simply not very well versed on the Japanese political system-and...

Discotek Media picked up the rights to the 2008 anime series Earl and the Fairy, known as Hakushaku to Yousei in its Japanese form, back in February. Though they haven't set a date for the release yet for the series, they've teased that it's being...

The perfect combination of light texture and flavorful chocolate. . . Every Japanese child must have tried Glico's Pocky series at least once. This delicious snack has been loved for half a century now, reaching its 50th anniversary this upcoming ...

Summon Night 5's imminent arrival to the US has brought forth a trailer to help gather an audience, showcasing both gameplay sequences and animated cinematics to make for an astounding trailer sure to give off a good first impression to potential ...

Everyone knows Japanese commercials are delightfully zany, often bordering on surreal in a way that usually doesn't help much to sell the product itself. Thankfully for the world, Metal Gear is just as zany, perhaps moreso, and the latest commerci...

Have you been following the development process behind Star Citizen and are considering making electronic warfare one of your specialties in the persistent universe when it is released? To mark the concept sale of the Vanguard Sentinel (Which alon...

It's been revealed that Vanilla Beans will transfer to Avex and release a new single (currently untitled) this fall. SEE ALSO: Vanilla Beans reveal details on new single 'Uchouten Girl' This announcement was made on August 29 during their one-man ...